Wade Bartholomew, who previously was at Gallia Academy and most recently at Huntington, has been hired at Bloom-Carroll to take over the football program.

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Tom Wilson
CentralOhio.com

For the first time in his young coaching career, Wade Bartholomew won't have to rebuild a struggling program.

The 27-year-old Bartholomew has done that in his first two coaching stints - taking a Huntington team that had lost 37 consecutive games and went 5-5, and he led Gallia Academy to a 5-5 record.

Bartholomew was approved as the new Bloom-Carroll head coach March 10. There were 58 coaches that applied for the job. Although this will be the Bulldogs' sixth different coach in the past nine seasons, Bartholomew seems like a perfect fit. ...